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If what you are saying would hold water , we would have to see concord fight faction troops around a -5.0 standing player.

Its interesting how you can see one thing as privilege and the sheer ability to fly in faction space not.

I disagree directly. I'm thinking the high sec POS standings requirement was a move to proliferate industry, and the market standings taxes mechanic is not going away... because it doesn't have the problem of blocking players from trade gameplay.

if anything, the high sec POS standings removal was a move toward market's system where everyone can participate in market trades, but at different tax rates. (refine, build, research jobs at various tax rates, but everyone can do it)

yes you're right. do away with standings altogether especially market

I would help you with this crusade but sadly it's never going to happen.

good luck, though. keep fighting the good fight

And yet, it creates game play. Setting up a POS became its own profession. Removing the standing restriction, removes content.

There where you want to have a POS for your own corp to which you are attached to, there is no other way then hard work. And yes, it is awefully difficult. It leads to decisions whether to accept new members or to stop recruitment for a while. It means to train members to fly missions. It means to encourage and motivate every single pilot in your corp to participate. It is called leadership. Such "corporations of addled fools" are a tight community and I think it is a part of what we enjoy in the game.
And once again, by removing a corp goal as a common accomplishment of a community, you remove something from the game.



P.S.: While I value your opinion, I would rather skip the thoughtless judgement of my playstyle.

Someone freshly from Caille Uni doesn't have any power, yet, with summer changes, is allowed to put up POSes. Moreover, if Empires indeed feel threatened by large capsuleer alliances in 0.0, giving them free access to moons and planets is completely illogical thing to do.
This here is another thing CCP does to make lore side of EVE setting, NPC Empires, irrelevant to PvP gameplay. This should not stand. Trade taxes, refine taxes, standings requirements for anchoring in space, charters are all part of payment for using NPC services, of setting's lore.

I want to vehemently protest against this planned change. It is going to be a detriment to industry.

I run a multi-person Tech 2 business. Its been difficult sorting things so there is a reduced risk of things being stolen or destroyed. I still endure a risk and I think its enough. More risk is unacceptable. The plan to make it impossible to copy BPOs in a POS while they remain in a station causes a very high risk that I will lose BPOs regularly. People will misplace them, steal them or go inactive while in possession of them. Currently, the BPOs are stored in a central location where we can do anything we need them to do. There is no need to search through arrays or cans or anything to find what's needed. A simple search in the inventory window is enough. If I was to allow BPOs to go to the POS I would have to either give my copiers full access to the BPOs or assign every job personally. The first is a huge risk. I would have to trust everyone one of my copier boffins. This would eliminate copying as good introductory role for new boffins. Assigning jobs is a major hassle as it take time from the directors to pack up each task.

If I choose to copy BPOs in a copy station then I will not also be able to manufacture using the originals as the Build and Copy stations are rarely the same place. I would at the least need to collect another set of the BPOs so as to have some on each station. Furthermore I would miss out on the time bonus that copy labs at a POS have making the whole process take longer.

My boffins copy between 7,500 and 10,000 BPCs a month. This new system will add a significant amount to that figure. I will need to copy the Advance Component BPOs and module BPOs in order to make the parts for the Tech 2 builds. What's more, I have to store all those BPCs somewhere and containers are currently limited to 1,000 BPCs at a time. I can't put tens of thousands of BPCs in a corp hangar. The lag when accessing it would be unbearable. Then you are going to have dozens of odd runs BPCs that aren't worth building from since you need many more than the BPC has. I suspect I'd end up destroying a lot of sub 100 runs BPCs. That many copy jobs is going to max out the price on any lab station. I'm looking at paying a huge premium on the copy jobs I have to do. How does that figure compare to running a copying POS? I certainly hope its cheaper as I'm going to be waiting an extra day for each one since I miss out on the 65% time reduction from Advanced Mobile Labs.

Next problem. My last build cycle demanded that I build 12,392 Quantum Microprocessors amongst other things. I used the remote build ability to use a BPO in station and build at the POS for the speed bonus. I used one slot on my alt and the job would take about 5.25 days. I didn't have to interact with it again until it was done. Nice and easy and fairly logical. Lets assume the new system forces me to make BPCs of the Quantum Microprocessor BPO to build the items in the POS. Already I have added the time associated with making 13 copies to the build job [Quantum Microprocessor BPOs have max run of 1,000.] Then I have to put on 10 build jobs for 1,000 runs each. They will take just over 5 hours each. Then I have to come back and put on the last 3 jobs. Like most people I probably wont log in for another 24 hours so approximately 18 hours of my day is wasted time because my array is building nothing. Furthermore, I can only do Quantum Microprocessors for those two days. Currently I can have ten different projects running and know that there is going to be a minimum of wasted time on the job. I have dozens of things to build for a build cycle. I don't need every job split into 10-15 pieces that need to be micromanaged. With the added time for copying the needed BPCs and the wasted time associated with short build jobs you will find that building a “batch” of goods is going to take considerably longer than it currently does.

If you want to make some significant improvements to industry then you should looks at things like the 1,000 item limit on cans so you can store your BPCs more easily. Setting it up so you can stack BPCs with the same stats would be even better. You actually have a very similar mechanic happening with the R.A.M. already. They are stackable in a virgin state and become unstackable once partially used. Displaying ME, PE and Runs Remaining on the the BP icon would be a major assistance.

Want to help productivity? Change the number of build/research jobs people can put on at one time. There is regularly this time loss as a result of a job finishing long before someone's usual log in time. So instead, say that someone may have max of 11 jobs actively running (11 being the absolute maximum due to skills) and then they may queue up another 11 – 44 jobs that will start when one of the initial eleven are finished. Its kinda a skill queue for build jobs. This would be a major assistance to Tech 2 manufacturing because they only deal with BPCs with short runs on them (10 – 19 at best).

Nice Dev Blog!.

I was thinking the other day when I manufactured a new ship.... What if you build a ship from the ground up, I mean, you mine the materials, create the parts, then build it and put it on sale on the market.... but the game keep tracking of that unique artesanal ship... and some day you received an e-mail or notificattion that your baby end it's life in a big war between massive corporations or was kill by concord because it's been used by criminals or it's explode in a remote location of unknow space while doing exploration.... something that tell you the story of the ship that you build with such dedication.

Maybe I'am crazy... but it will be a nice touch.

after the removal of standings requirements for highhsec pos's, will there be any point to increasing faction standings anymore? will something be added to keep the value of the grind or will it just be removed altogether?

jump clones can be acquired with just corp standings, faction warfare just needs positive standings, refine and tax reductions are corp standings.

there are a lot of players out there that spent a lot of time grinding faction standings to suddenly make their entire work worthless.

Not completely -- market tax reductions benefit from both faction and corp. You want both as high as possible.

also not entirely, it draws from which ever is higher